NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5614, 27 March 1879, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) . • n;;". LONDON, March.24i , 1 Asevereearthquakehas occurred in Northern Persia. Great damage was caused. Nearly 1100 persons have perished. \< The Exhibition 'Committee recommends the French Government to appoint three committees, for the Sydney Exhibition, such committees to control the representation of agriculture, manufactures, and science respectively. The. GoveVnmeut have accepted the tender of the Eastern Extension Company-for The construction of a cable .via Aden, Zanzibar, Mozambique, and'Delagba Bay to Natal. ,T;I,-'.’.i in.i • Bombay, March 25.,. In the House, of Lords to-day, the Secretary of State; for, Foreign Affairs, replying to a question, said that if the Treaty of Berlin iWere'hot fulfiUedj the Sultan thought the British fleet in..the Sea of Marmora should be sent to the Black Sea to secure compliance with the conditions of the treaty, and that he (the Sultan j‘should be authorised to ask the assistance’ allies.- - The Secretary of State added that he did not anticipate that the contingency alluded to by the Sultan would arise. ■ -' - ■ i ,h: ■■ ■•!'■■■■. St. : Petersburg, March-24.' < A fresh case of plague, has appeared (at Wittlanka in Siberia. .(,', ,! The Kusaian Government suggests a mixed occupation of Roumelia after the Russian; troops have evacuated that territory. ( 1 '■’ ' Melbourne, Wednesday. Sir John Coode’s scheme for the improvement of the Yarra River involves a cost of over bfie 'million sterling. , , ; • ‘ ' r (SPECIAL TO PRESS AGENCY.)’ . '' London, March 24.

The Eastern Extension Company’s tender for the cable to the Cape has been accepted; the; company in the meantime are utilising the duplicate Australian cable. ' . ■